Stars: Theo Germaine, Kevin Bacon, Quei Tann, Austin Crute, Monique Kim | Written and Directed by John Logan
Campers at an LGBTQ+ conversion camp endure unsettling psychological techniques while the campsite is stalked by a mysterious killer.
John Logan‘s They/Them is absolutely one of the weirdest slasher films in years. First thing’s first – why did this movie get dumped straight to streaming when it stars Kevin Bacon aka one of the most recognizable actors in the world? Number two, what’s up with that abysmally awful poster? And number three, why does this movie feel like it has no direction and why does it save everything interesting until the end?
Long story short, They/Them is a bad movie. It actually had an interesting setup which was why the first twenty minutes had me a little hooked. A group of queer kids attend Whistler Camp, run by a man named Owen Whistler.
Campers at an LGBTQ+ conversion camp endure unsettling psychological techniques while the campsite is stalked by a mysterious killer.
John Logan‘s They/Them is absolutely one of the weirdest slasher films in years. First thing’s first – why did this movie get dumped straight to streaming when it stars Kevin Bacon aka one of the most recognizable actors in the world? Number two, what’s up with that abysmally awful poster? And number three, why does this movie feel like it has no direction and why does it save everything interesting until the end?
Long story short, They/Them is a bad movie. It actually had an interesting setup which was why the first twenty minutes had me a little hooked. A group of queer kids attend Whistler Camp, run by a man named Owen Whistler.
- 8/11/2022
- by Caillou Pettis
- Nerdly
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[This story contains spoilers for They/Them.]
In John Logan’s directorial debut, Peacock summer camp slasher They/Them, a group of LGBTQ young people find themselves at a conversion therapy camp — places banned in many U.S. states that allege they can “change,” “repair” or even “cure” someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
Run by Kevin Bacon’s Owen Whistler and designed to appear like a typical summer camp, Whistler lures the campers into a sense of trust with an oddly warm, inclusionary and unthreatening welcome before unleashing his and his family’s violent and discriminatory torture on the group. All there for different reasons, the group must band together to survive the psychological and physical abuse they experience.
But as the campers fight off a variety of queerphobic and transphobic camp counselors — including members of their own community — they soon discover that there’s another threat walking among them in the woods,...
[This story contains spoilers for They/Them.]
In John Logan’s directorial debut, Peacock summer camp slasher They/Them, a group of LGBTQ young people find themselves at a conversion therapy camp — places banned in many U.S. states that allege they can “change,” “repair” or even “cure” someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
Run by Kevin Bacon’s Owen Whistler and designed to appear like a typical summer camp, Whistler lures the campers into a sense of trust with an oddly warm, inclusionary and unthreatening welcome before unleashing his and his family’s violent and discriminatory torture on the group. All there for different reasons, the group must band together to survive the psychological and physical abuse they experience.
But as the campers fight off a variety of queerphobic and transphobic camp counselors — including members of their own community — they soon discover that there’s another threat walking among them in the woods,...
- 8/10/2022
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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